Ruth Padel

Scientific classification is a practice and science of categorization.

Scientific classification may also refer to:

• Chemical classification
• Mathematical classification, construction of subsets into a set
• Statistical classification, the mathematical problem of assigning a label to an object based on a set of its attributes or features

• Taxonomy (biology)
  • Alpha taxonomy, the science of finding, describing and naming organisms
  • Cladistics, a newer way of classifying organisms, based solely on phylogeny
  • Linnaean taxonomy, the classic scientific classification system
  • Virus classification, naming and sorting viruses

• Galaxy morphological classification
• Stellar classification

• Categorization, general
• Classification of the sciences (Peirce)
• Linguistic typology
• Systematic name